Rovers made headlines this week with the signing of boy band star Louis Tomlinson – but it was one their old hands who looked to have salvaged a point for them.

It is doubtful Rob Jones has any One Direction in his record collection but it was the skipper who got Rovers back on level terms.

He levelled after one of Blackpool’s own new boys, Steven Davies, had opened the scoring.

But Rovers were punished for switching off at a corner with three minutes left.

Tom Ince floated the ball to the far post where Gary MacKenzie powered his header home. And with Rovers chasing an equaliser, keeper Ross Turnbull came up for a corner but could not get back in time to stop Ince rolling it into an empty net from 45 yards out.

“I’m obviously disappointed with the result and the manner of it,” said Rovers boss Paul Dickov.

Doncaster made headlines this week by signing One Direction's Louis Tomlinson

“I thought we started the game a little bit nervy and a little bit on edge, maybe with it being our first game back in the Championship. We settled down after about 20 or 25 minutes and we played some really good stuff.

“We possibly could and should have scored but we conceded a goal that we felt was a foul on the goalkeeper and found ourselves a goal down at half-time.

“We wanted the boys to believe they could get back in it. I thought they came out and played ever so well in the second half to get back in the game and we felt there was only one team that was going to go on and win it.

“I thought we started the game a little bit nervy and a little bit on edge, maybe with it being our first game back in the Championship”

Paul Dickov

“So to concede from a set-piece when we were on top and looking to win the game was, from our point of view, criminal and disappointing.” Blackpool counterpart Paul Ince, though, was delighted with his side’s performance.

“I thought we deserved to win on the evidence of 94 minutes,” he said. "I thought they started really well for the first ten minutes. Like every team that gets promoted, the players are up for it, the fans are up for it and you know it will be a hard day.

"When it got to 1-1 I knew that these boys at Blackpool never give in. They’ve got great togetherness and camaraderie and you just know we’re going to score."